Corporate report

Tackling alcohol smuggling: outputs

A report on the outputs of HMRC's alcohol strategy covering alcohol seizures, criminal enforcement and the Alcohol Wholesaler Registration Scheme.

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Tackling alcohol fraud is an HM Revenue and Customs priority. The HMRC Alcohol Strategy was launched in 2010 and refreshed in 2016.

Our aims for alcohol, working with other enforcement agencies and the alcohol industry, are to:

  • promote good compliance - making it easier for businesses to pay the right duties
  • prevent tax losses - making it harder to make mistakes or to deliberately cheat, including addressing regime vulnerabilities, and exploring technology solutions to prevent fraud
  • respond to those who cheat - increasing the impact of enforcement

Previous versions of this report

You can view previous versions on The National Archives website:

Updates to this page

Published 10 June 2021
Last updated 26 September 2024 + show all updates
  1. Updated to include data from April 2023 to April 2024.

  2. Updated to include data for tax year 2022 to 2023.

  3. Updated with data for tax year 2021 to 2022.

  4. Updated to reflect figures up to April 2021.

  5. First published.

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